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Sorry, you couldn't be more wrong as it seems you missed the entire point of the series: God's plan always wins. It was the excess in life, etc. that got man to the point of extinction. Man plays God by artificially creating life, which revolts against man and believes in one God, who then ultimately show humans the errs of their ways.

Starting over once again with the hope that maybe this time, they'll get it right, was the perfect ending.

Seems to me they ended up exactly where they started,
on the same path to destruction.

Why did they give up their FTL technology?
Makes no sense to me.

i agree with your take.

i only started watching the last 6 episodes because i have a relative involved in the series.

from what i could gleam from reading summaries and what i watched, this is what i thought.

Sorry, you couldn't be more wrong as it seems you missed the entire point of the series: God's plan always wins.

I don't give this show's producers and writers credit for having the intelligence to come to that conclusion. Sorry.

Starting over once again with the hope that maybe this time, they'll get it right, was the perfect ending.

Thing is, they weren't really "starting over". They were committing mass suicide. Just rather than drinking a bunch of Kool Aid (or Flavor Aid, or whatever), they were taking the mid-term approach by exposing themselves to disease, famine, big hungry puddy tats, and the like. Reasonable estimate is that under the circumstances they deliberately put themselves into, the Colonial population would have a half-life of about a year. And that's being very optimistic.

I think the ending had a lot more to do with Moore and the rest of the cast/crew wanting as much finality as possible and to avoid leaving the door open to another team coming in later down the road with spinoffs that would pick up the plot where they ended it. With the Fleet sent into Sun and all technology abandoned, about the best that could be managed for a sequel would be something along the lines of "Battlestar Donner Party".

(Ok, it is Science Fiction, so under they "Well, they Brought Back Spock" theory they COULD figure out a way to have sequels. Maybe instead of cremating the fleet, Anders just parked it into an orbit between Venus and Mercury.)

no it was politically correct garbage.

It was a lame ass attempt to go left with an original series that started out about your enemies socliciting for peace but using it as a ruse to attack. (sound familiar?)

The devolved into pro left wing unionista minutia.

You ended up hoping the ALL died.

It also tossed the premise of the earth being off on its own lost to the other twelve planets in modern time. Instead everyone was busy being rebooted.

The special effects were very good.

Hopefully the new reboot will take advantage of them.

I hear the original starbuck is mixed up in it somehow.